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Investors fret that the Education Department's lengthy scrutiny of the U of Phoenix's proposed sale means the deal might be nixed. Politics and optics might be reasons for the delay.
Study suggests that scientific impact doesn't have to decrease with age and scientists have a unique kind of IQ that accurately predicts their career success.
University of Oregon suspends faculty member while investigating her conduct at a Halloween party. Many of her colleagues demand she resign. Legally, can she be sanctioned?
Identifying a football culture that protected athletes and officials, the Education Department will fine Penn State U nearly $2.4 million for failing to notify students about assistant coach charged with sex abuse and for failing to disclose other campus crimes.
Northeast Texas Community College is connecting small farmers with the area’s residents in hopes of helping the agriculture industry and promoting health in the region.

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If the presidential candidate were a student in our community college class, he’d have to do a lot more research, write Jed Shahar and Benjamin Lawrance Miller.
We should be able to articulate clearly how English and literature studies prepare our students for the world, argues Laurence Musgrove, who offers some specific ways to do so.

Career Advice

A major concern for trans people today is the process of legally changing one’s name, as well as one’s gender marker, on official college records, writes Katriel Paige.
Stacy Jane Grover gives advice on how to avoid curriculum choices that exoticize, tokenize and discipline the experiences of transgender and gender-nonconforming students.

Blogs

GradHacker

November 3, 2016
Treating grad school like a professional experience.

Confessions of a Community College Dean

November 3, 2016
The World Series, more on going "full Florida," observations from lower Manhattan.  

Technology and Learning

November 3, 2016
The risks and opportunities of our networked postsecondary world.

Library Babel Fish

November 3, 2016
Public libraries are pretty nifty. I'm worried about my cousins across the pond who are losing theirs in record numbers.

Mama PhD

November 3, 2016
Important odds.

Just Visiting

November 3, 2016
The psychology of "making do" can blind us to how far we've fallen.

Call to Action: Marketing and Communications in Higher Education

November 3, 2016
Fran Zablocki shares four examples of how your .edu will either fulfill or break your brand promises.

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